A Computer That Will Destroy WoW

[TheMailMan78]

yeah but world of warcraft isnt a fancy FPS or an RTS its just a simple MMO and will be smooth at 35fps

60fps hmmmn yeah with crossfire youd probly be doing that for all titles just now

CPU is key and for an old MMO like WoW an x3 will smash it

I have an x4 now baby! A 955

 

[Aelexe]

35fps?! I won't install something I can't run at 60fps with everything maxed out.

WoW get's shit ton of fps, it's just very situational.

Non-populated areas of the original game I'd be at 70, but then as you go to the new expansions where they improved textures alot it drops to around 40.

Get into regular pvp, some dungeons it'll occasionally drop to 30.

Intense raids with the best graphics and 25 people slinging around shit it often dropped down to 15 for me.

That said it was all highly dependent on settings, such as having fullscreen and ui scaling on and off, and disabling certain addons, but I was heavily restricted by my crap cpu as I said.

 

[TheMailMan78]

WoW get's shit ton of fps, it's just very situational.

Non-populated areas of the original game I'd be at 70, but then as you go to the new expansions where they improved textures alot it drops to around 40.

Get into regular pvp, some dungeons it'll occasionally drop to 30.

Intense raids with the best graphics and 25 people slinging around shit it often dropped down to 15 for me.

That said it was all highly dependent on settings, such as having fullscreen and ui scaling on and off, and disabling certain addons, but I was heavily restricted by my crap cpu as I said.

Please fill out your specs man. We could be a lot more help if we knew what you were running and your budget.

 

[Aelexe]

Please fill out your specs man. We could be a lot more help if we knew what you were running and your budget.

Well nothing now, I'm running on my laptop, my old piece of junk got scrapped =P.

That said my problem has already been solved by the super awesome guy on the first page =D.

 

[Naelex]

Might have been mentioned before but just to note you won't see any gain in wow using more than one gpu (crossfire/sli)

 

[deaffob]

I don't think many people here play wow. I've been playing wow for 5 years very intensely and I can say that in some part wow can be a demanding game.
My spec is

E8400@4.4Ghz
DDR2 2x2GB 1100hz
5870@stock (no need to oc atm)

Even with my system the game fps sometimes drop around to 60fps. Sure it stays around 300+fps in most areas but when I go outside flying around with everything maxed, my fps drop. It can be one of the most demanding game in certain situations. Also wow has been keep improving on their graphics orginal<1st expansion<2nd expansion. They kept adding more options to the graphic menu.

 

[xBruce88x]

my friend plays it with a p4 HT 3.06, a 256mb 8600gt, and 2gb ram and he gets pretty decent fps most of the times except for the big raids. but a lot of it has to do with his DSL connection sometimes. Those systems should run it fine. of course the most crowded areas are always going to be lower fps than the rest of the game.

 

[deaffob]

my friend plays it with a p4 HT 3.06, a 256mb 8600gt, and 2gb ram and he gets pretty decent fps most of the times except for the big raids. but a lot of it has to do with his DSL connection sometimes. Those systems should run it fine. of course the most crowded areas are always going to be lower fps than the rest of the game.

There are many graphic options in the menu that can impact the performance greatly.

People above said 4850 will destroy this game but that not true. I recently changed to 5870 from 4850 and 4850 can play this game at max easily but like I said, the fps will drop in certain area/situation dramatically.

 

[Frick]

I have pleayed wow on a 2.5ghz P4 with a Geforce 4 and ran fine on low.

I played it on a 1Ghz P3 with a Radeon 9000. Only solo though, but it was fine.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I play the game maxed out as well on the rig n my system specs and I cant generally keep above 40FPS. If I go into Wintergrasp or even Dalaran, i usually crash because of the fps/lag.

 

[King Wookie]

There's an old adage: buy the best you can afford. The better the machine, the longer it will serve you.

Saying that, WOW is not a pc killer. My 4850 ran comfortably maxed out settings at 1680.
But some areas like Dalaran you will see the fps drop. More a network issue than anything else it seems to me.

 

[deaffob]

There's an old adage: buy the best you can afford. The better the machine, the longer it will serve you.

Saying that, WOW is not a pc killer. My 4850 ran comfortably maxed out settings at 1680.
But some areas like Dalaran you will see the fps drop. More a network issue than anything else it seems to me.

It is absolutely not a network issue. Because I play WOW arena at high level, I optimized my system and network to get the lowest ping possible. I play at constant 9ms and my house is right next to where the server is located at. It is the game that's demanding. It has nothing to do with the network. I had a 4850 OCed to 850mhz and I still got a massive fps fall in open area flying around. I don't know what fps you are talking about but if you've been having 150fps and suddenly it drops to 50fps, you feel the big difference.

 

[TheMailMan78]

It is absolutely not a network issue. Because I play WOW arena at high level, I optimized my system and network to get the lowest ping possible. I play at constant 9ms and my house is right next to where the server is located at. It is the game that's demanding. It has nothing to do with the network. I had a 4850 OCed to 850mhz and I still got a massive fps fall in open area flying around. I don't know what fps you are talking about but if you've been having 150fps and suddenly it drops to 50fps, you feel the big difference.

Then the game is very poorly optimized.

 

[King Wookie]

It is absolutely not a network issue. Because I play WOW arena at high level, I optimized my system and network to get the lowest ping possible. I play at constant 9ms and my house is right next to where the server is located at. It is the game that's demanding. It has nothing to do with the network. I had a 4850 OCed to 850mhz and I still got a massive fps fall in open area flying around. I don't know what fps you are talking about but if you've been having 150fps and suddenly it drops to 50fps, you feel the big difference.

I stand enlightened. When I used to play the game, it was a miracle if I saw better than 500ms ping. The joys of being in Africa.

None the less, a 4850 should be more than adequate.

 

[ERazer]

with ur option

x3 made for gaming due to L3 cache
x4 620 made for multi tasking ( like wcg ) with lil bit gaming

my 2 cent